Tagged Jean Marsh

What are you doing on Saturday the 26th January 2013? If you’re in the area then you should make sure that you head over to The Who Shop’s big event – A Celebration of the First Doctor. Popular demand for this event has forced The Who Shop to not only issue a further fifty tickets…

1965-66 epic The Daleks’ Masterplan seldom fails to be hounded by contentiousness among Who fans. Is it the longest story ever, or does that honour go to four-stories-in-one Trial of a Time Lord? Is Sara Kingdom officially a companion? Is the Christmas Day episode – in which Hartnell’s Doctor breaks the fourth wall for the…

After some fairly light hearted and fun adventures in time and space for the fourth and sixth Doctors, Big Finish offer up a rather deep and sombre story for the First Doctor, Steven and Sara. Set during events of The Daleks’ Master Plan, The Anachronauts finds Steven and Sara telling a tale of when the…

Had a busy year of it? Maybe there was a lot of Doctor Who that you didn’t have the time to get to grips with. Well panic not, we at Kasterborous are here to help. But only within the capacity of your ears! You may have heard of a little company called Big Finish, dedicated…

The trailer for Army of Death the final part of the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley trilogy of adventures has risen from its cold grave and can be heard howling over at Big Finish. The tale sees the unlikely pair land on Draxine, where a devastating battle has transformed the city-state of Garrak into a…

Television legend and former Doctor Who companion Jean Marsh has recently been unwell following a minor stroke. The actress – Sara Kingdom in the epic 1960s adventure The Daleks’ Master Plan – had been due to start filming the second series of the revived Upstairs Downstairs, a series which she conceived with Eileen Atkins back…

Good news for Alex Kingston fans, you’re going to be seeing more of her on the small screen even when she’s not guest starring in Doctor Who. The actress has recently signed up to play the role of Blanche Mottershead, the younger sister of Lady Holland in the next series of Upstairs Downstairs. Shooting begins…